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- Colin Campbell downplayed the on-ice taunts son Gregory was getting as a reason for stepping away from supplemental discipline. Thought that was interesting. One of the two between-benches games I did this season was Boston/Toronto. The Maple Leafs were merciless, and they weren't the only ones. Think any parent would feel awful about that. Gregory handled it unbelievably well.
- Had the note last week about teams not hitting Milan Lucic so he doesn't get angry. Glenn Healy was saying teams used to do that with Mark Messier. They totally avoided him, hoping it was one of the nights he didn't feel like killing anyone. "One night, he was off to a slow start, but the other coach taunted him from the bench," Healy said. "(Messier) stopped in the middle of play, looked at him and said, 'What did you say?' Meanwhile, we're playing four-on-five while he's staring down the guy. I think we won 8-2." Do believe, however, that Lucic is hurt much worse than is being let on.
- Obviously, there was a lot of talk about the "icing that wasn't" at the end of that game, but another huge play didn't get enough attention: Patrick Marleau dumping the puck into the Vancouver corner about a minute beforehand. Roberto Luongo had already gone to the bench, but Marleau wasn't aware of it. Don't know if the bench failed to yell at him or he didn't hear them or what, but that was an enormous snafu.
- Colin Campbell downplayed the on-ice taunts son Gregory was getting as a reason for stepping away from supplemental discipline. Thought that was interesting. One of the two between-benches games I did this season was Boston/Toronto. The Maple Leafs were merciless, and they weren't the only ones. Think any parent would feel awful about that. Gregory handled it unbelievably well.
- Had the note last week about teams not hitting Milan Lucic so he doesn't get angry. Glenn Healy was saying teams used to do that with Mark Messier. They totally avoided him, hoping it was one of the nights he didn't feel like killing anyone. "One night, he was off to a slow start, but the other coach taunted him from the bench," Healy said. "(Messier) stopped in the middle of play, looked at him and said, 'What did you say?' Meanwhile, we're playing four-on-five while he's staring down the guy. I think we won 8-2." Do believe, however, that Lucic is hurt much worse than is being let on.
- Obviously, there was a lot of talk about the "icing that wasn't" at the end of that game, but another huge play didn't get enough attention: Patrick Marleau dumping the puck into the Vancouver corner about a minute beforehand. Roberto Luongo had already gone to the bench, but Marleau wasn't aware of it. Don't know if the bench failed to yell at him or he didn't hear them or what, but that was an enormous snafu.
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